Stage 5: Peter Sagan Wins the Stage, Michael Rogers takes the Lead

Stage 5 Results | Video | Press Release Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won stage 5 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California in a spectacular sprint among the GC hopefuls after a six-man breakaway disintegrated and was retrieved on the finishing circuits in Bakersfield, which included three painful trips up the short, steep China Grade.

It was race leader David Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) who led out the sprint in Bakersfield, but he started too soon — Sagan was on his wheel, as was Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia), and the outcome was a double loss for Zabriskie. He saw Sagan easily overpower him for the stage victory, while Rogers stripped him of the overall lead. Read more »

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